Roman Fresnedo Siri

Román Fresnedo Siri (born February 4, 1903 in Salto ; † June 26, 1975 in Montevideo ) was a Uruguayan architect .

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de la República . Fresnedo Siri won the competition to construct the building that houses the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, DC (opened in 1965). He was also responsible for the Palacio de la Luz , which served as the seat of the UTE ( Arroyo Seco , Montevideo) , which was planned in 1948 and opened in 1951. After winning the pre-construction competition of the Jockey Club of Porto Alegre, he also designed the Hipódromo do Cristal in Porto Alegre . The monument to Luis Batlle Berres in Jacinto Vera , inaugurated on July 15, 1967 , also goes back to him.

His other works include:

• the Folle Ylla (1938) and Local Tribuna (1945) grandstands in the Hipódromo de Maroñas in Montevideo
• the building of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, opened in 1947 (in collaboration with Mario Muccinelli )
• the Sanatorio Americano in Parque Batlle
• the Casa Barreira in Cordón

literature

• Román Fresnedo Siri, un arquitecto uruguayo by J. Yolanda Boronat and Marta R. Risso, 1984

Web links

• Roman Fresnedo Siri. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PAHO HQ Turns 40 on the official PAHO website paho.org
2. ↑ "Otra lección de arquitectura que se transformará en escombros" (Spanish) in El País on May 19, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2012
3. ↑ MAINSTREAM MODERN AND PARALLEL MODERNITIES  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 20 (PDF; 802 kB), accessed on July 8, 2012  
4. ^ Monumento a Luis Batlle Berres (Spanish), accessed July 8, 2012